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scalped the dead and ate some of them
1757
3
Indians scalped Captain Spikeman, who was beheaded and his head put on a pole; another prisoner was stuck with pine needles, which were set afire; and a third had his intestines cut open and was forced to walk around a sapling until he died
1758
1+
Montcalm took Fort William Henry and promised soldiers safe conduct, but Indians killed or took prisoner as many as 1,500
1758
3
Delaware Indians killed Thomas Potter, then a small child who was scalped, then Samuel Hunter, who was also scalped, and Daniel M’Manimy, who was burned, then his scalp was put on a pole before his face and finally red-hot gun barrels and a bayonet were passed over his body
1758
c.267
Scottish soldiers beheaded and heads put on stakes
1758
2+
Shawnee burned settlers and put their burned heads, arms, and legs along shore of Ohio River
1763
2,000
Pontiac’s Rebellion resulted in many settler deaths
1763
8
Settlers murdered by Indians at Detroit
1763
12+
At Fort Michilimackinac, which was captured by Chippewa and Sac, a lieutenant was beheaded, the dead scalped and mangled, the dying tomahawked, some bodies ripped open and Indians drank their blood, 5 knifed to death by a Chippewa chief, and the fattest cooked and eaten
1763
1
Commander of the garrison at Venango tortured for 3 days by Iroquois, then roasted to death by the Seneca
1763
1
Chippewa chief Wasson scalped Captain Campbell
1763
1
Captain Dalyell was killed; Pontiac’s men cut out his heart, wiped it on prisoners’ faces, cut off his head, and mounted it on a pole
1763
1
Pontiac served French settlers body of a British soldier, then showed them his severed head
unknown
2+
Sioux scalped Mandans
c.1770
1
The Boggs baby was not permitted to nurse, was thrown into the road intermittently, was sometimes kicked, then murdered and scalped
c.1775
1
Indians seared prisoner’s body with heated gun barrels, scalped, hot coals applied to his skull, one end of his intestines tied around a tree around which he walked until they were all drawn out, his genitals cut off, and a hot gun barrel thrust into his heart
1777
2
A Wyandot and another Indian friendly to the British escorted American Jane MacCrea to a British post to meet her British fiance. The Indians tomahawked and scalped her. Her scalp and that taken from an American officer were taken to the Indian camp
1778
360
The Wyoming Valley Massacre took 360 settler lives at the hands of the Iroquois, and the British commander Butler claimed 227 scalps were taken
1778
110
British colonel Hamilton claimed he bought 110 scalps that year alone
1778
30+
Indians attacked Cherry Valley, New York, and some engaged in cannibalism
1778
5+
Major Moses Van Campen’s father and brother were scalped; he found an Indian village that had scalped 3 families
1779
2
Manheim twin sisters stuck with splinters dipped in turpentine and burned
1779
unknown
Mohawk struck town of Minisink, burning 12 houses
1779
2
Iroquois captured Oneida chief Hanyerry, hewed his body to pieces, and impaled his scalped head on a branch; at same time, Lieutenant Boyd was captured, his fingernails pulled out, nose and tongue cut off, eye gouged out, genitals cut off, and he was skinned alive and beheaded
1779
4+
Colonel Lochy and some of his men tortured by Mohawk
1779
18
Indians attacked town of Goshen and scalped all 17 hospital patients and their physician
c.1780
1
Sutler Potts was scalped, hung upside down on a sapling, then cut open so that his intestines hung down over his head
1781
9
Settlers burned at the stake by Wyandots
unknown
3
Kwakiutl Cannibal Society bit flesh from arms of those watching them dance, then ate a slave
1782
3
Indians scalped Mrs. Wallace, her infant, and John Carpenter near Raccoon Creek
1782
5
Delaware women and boys tomahawked prisoners
1782
1
Delaware tortured Colonel Crawford: Powder was shot into his body from feet to neck, his ears cut off, his body burned with sticks, burning coals thrown on him, he was scalped, a